Rhythmicon
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rhythmicon-249-3748762
title:
Rhythmicon
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The Rhythmicon—also known as the Polyrhythmophone—was an electro-mechanical musical instrument designed and built by Leon Theremin for composer Henry Cowell, intended to reveal connections between rhythms, pitches and the harmonic series. It used a series of perforated spinning disks, similar to a Nipkow disk, to interrupt the flow of light between bulbs and phototoreceptors aligned with the disk perforations. The interrupted signals created oscillations which were perceived as rhythms or tones
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythmicon
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2024-02-29T06:07:56Z
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